Analysis Of Alone By Maya Angelou

Friendship, love, unity, health, wealth, etc are the elements that drove Maya Angelou's heart into this creative piece. She couldn't deny the strength in wealth but she acknowledged that wealth and riches were not fulfillment.

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Okay, lets look at the first stanza of the poem where the poem speaker opened with "Last night" and such phrase weigh very deeply big for anyone who's willing to agree to my tiny thought. No matter busy someone is, no matter how conserved and reserved and deeply self a person can be, nighttimes are times when companionship matters a lot ( even the sadists and the extremists sometimes don't

like to lonely at some certain night):
"Last night
How to find my soul a home
Where water is not thirsty
And bread loaf is not stone
I came up with one thing
And I don't believe I'm wrong
That nobody,
But nobody
Can make it out here alone."

In another stanza, riches didn't suffice. "There are some millionaires/ With money they can't use/ Their wives run round like banshees/ Their children sing the blues/ They've got expensive doctors/ To cure their hearts of stone." The rich we thought be made happy and fulfilled because of their money are shown by the poem speaker to be in a very huge predicament with little or no help nor way out.

Maya tried to alert everyone that all the inadequacies of the world is as a result of human selfishness_ neighbors hardly caring for their neighbors, oppressors here and there. The only solution is unity else human race vanishes as smoke:
"Now if you listen closely
I'll tell you what I know
Storm clouds are gathering
The wind is gonna blow
The race of man is suffering
And I can hear the moan,
'Cause nobody,
But nobody
Can make it out here alone."

Based on the structure, the poem seems lyrical. Most especially the refrain:
"Alone, all alone
Nobody, but nobody
Can make it out here alone."

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Samuel C. Enunwa aka samueldpoetry
(the Leo with wings flying)